I T E C N E W S L E T T E R Vol 4 No 1 January 5, 1996 ITEC's new Internet address: VA.ITEC.SUNY.EDU 1.0 SPECIAL NOTICE: Many licenses expiring 2.0 Using PathWorks Client V5.1 licenses on Windows 95 machines. 1.0 SPECIAL NOTICE: Many licenses expiring Many licenses (not all) will expire next month on February 28, 1996. Please notice that we have new license PAKs available in GETSOFTWARE. The new PAKs expire 28-Feb-1997. 2.0 Using PathWorks Client V5.1 licenses on Windows 95 machines. Those of you who have Pathworks Client Licenses V5.1 for DOS machines and are getting error messages using them on Windows 95 machines saying that you do not have Pathworks License for Windows 95, this information may be of interest to you... The right to use this initial release of PATHWORKS client software for Windows 95 is included with one of the following software licenses: PATHWORKS V5.1 for DOS and Windows (LAN Manager) CCS, PATHWORKS V5.1 for DOS and Windows (NetWare) CCS, and PATHWORKS V5.1 for DOS and Windows CNS. Users holding licenses for earlier versions of PATHWORKS for DOS and Windows are required to purchase upgrade licenses to PATHWORKS V5.1 client software. Refer to the PATHWORKS V5.1 for DOS and Windows Software Product Description (SPD 55.07.15) for the list of PATHWORKS client license part numbers. For Windows 95, Pathworks V5 shipped some extensions on a CD called the "Pathworks for DOS and Windows 95 Release", which were really extensions to the Pathworks for DOS and Windows kit. Pathworks V6 (newly shipping) includes those extensions within the V6 kit. Bottom line, there is only 1 Pathworks for DOS / Windows kit (with correct extensions) for DOS, Windows, Windows for Workgroups, and Windows 95. Window NT does have a totally separate kit. You need none of above if you just want a Windows 95 client (or any native Lan Manager) to access a Pathworks V5 server - you just need a CSS license and the File and Print access kit, which gives you the bits out of the Pathworks kit that address responding to a license request. You can download the kit with the URL of ftp://ftp.service.digital.com/public/dos/pc/v5.0/pathworks_dos/5.0/ The file is called: pwv5clt_fpa_eco12.zip This has the license responders for WFW, Win 95 and NT in one kit. There are also readmes, etc. in the kit - and at the same root level directory. In general all patches are at http://www.service.digital.com/ html/patch_service.html. You can also get to this from our main home page www.digital.com by following the service and support thread. With the latest licensing code for Windows 95, you can ask for and be given a Pathworks for DOS / Windows CCS license, to use in place of a FPA license. The basic steps to do this are: a) Install the licensing code on their native clients b) Go to the "Control Panel" on the W95 client c) Select "Networks" d) Select "PATHWORKS Licensing Agent (LAN Manager)" from the "Configuration" folder e) Select "Properties" f) Select "License Type" (the default showing will probably be "FPA") g) *CHANGE* the "License Type" to CCS h) Click on "OK" a number of times to work your way back out i) You'll be asked if you want to restart your system to make this change...say yes...and it should work Because of this new code, you may not need to exchange CCS licenses for FPA versions if converting with W95 "native" clients. Unfortunately, NT's license requester does not have such an option, so when going to NT "Native" clients that still desire access to Pathworks V5 Servers, you do need to exchange the license from the DOS / Windows CCS to FPA. My understanding is we are doing this on an as needed basis for no charge. Thanks to Tom Knight of Digital for this information Editor: Betty Spencer scacad@va.itec.suny.edu ITEC's General Office 716/878-4611 Director's Office 716/878-4206 Operations 716/878-5122 After hours 716/878-6642 FAX 716/878-4235 web page http://www.itec.suny.edu